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Summary: The Blue hole is a natural sinkhole off the coast of Egypt. It is very accessible, there are many beginners, and there are many unscrupulous dive guide
by roland35 6y ago
Summary: The Blue hole is a natural sinkhole off the coast of Egypt. It is very accessible, there are many beginners, and there are many unscrupulous dive guides which lead to diver depths.
Some basic diving rules which when broken lead to deaths:
- Not diving with a partner
- Diving below the depth you should be
- Diving after partying the night before
- Rising back up too quickly
- danparsonson 6y agoYeah exactly - any diving is dangerous if a diver behaves in the ways described in this article, it's not the site that's the problem per se. Just the depth that makes it easy for things to get worse when they go wrong I guess.
- shellfishgene 6y agoI think one big part of it is that tunnnel that leads out of the hole to the open ocean. Tunnels and arches to dive through magically attract divers, also for taking picures. The tunnel's ceiling is at 52-56 meters, which is exactly the depth that compressed air divers think they can risk diving to. The bottom of the tunnel however is at around 100 m, and nitrogen narcosis sometimes causes inexperienced divers to reach it...
- Syzygies 6y ago> nitrogen narcosis sometimes causes inexperienced divers to reach it For those of us who (don't) remember the 60's, experience can take many forms. I remember reaching a depth of 100' in scuba training, and being asked to do arithmetic at a whiteboard. "Um, ask me how I wrote my thesis..."